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Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt · Founding-Engineer Edition
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مدينة نصرSuch a lovely font, eh? It's called Ruq'ah and it's a common hand-written arabic style

Hometown paper · covering one Nasr City engineer's exploits abroad · Current stop - München

Vol. VI · No. 07·Circulation · 447·Munich · partly everything·Price: a coffee
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Rumanna: a notebook that answers back

Language learning built around the notes you would take anyway.

Author · Language learningJul 2026 to now
Rumanna: a notebook that answers back
Rumanna: a notebook that answers back

The Problem

Learning a language makes a mess: a word from the train, a rule you half understand, a sentence you were not sure about. Flashcard apps want that mess cleaned up first, which is the work you were avoiding.

What We Built

You just write. As you pause it picks out the words worth keeping and the grammar you just used, then fills in translations and examples you are free to edit. Write a rule in your own clumsy wording and it comes back with a verdict and a clean version, so you see where you were wrong instead of being handed the answer. Notes pin to a day and become a journal. Review runs on spaced repetition, and the quizzes come from your own words. This one is not online yet. It goes up once it is ready for someone other than me.

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